Bladee

egobaby

The Fool · 2021

This song has been out for several years. It's one of Bladee's best songs. I keep revisiting it for several reasons:

  1. The opening line, "There's levels to everything — Avicii" has lived rent-free in my head for years. He's eulogizing the late Swedish artist but is sort of... annoying about it? I didn't realize that's how Avcii is pronounced.

  2. The video is amazing and bizarre. Did Bladee get a soundstage for this? Was he inspired at all by Synecdoche, New York?

  3. egobaby is Bladee at his most woefully poetic:

    In my heart, in my arms, be forever, baby
    Eons at a time never die, never die forever
    I'm in your mind if you think about me sometimes, baby

    He’s trying to kill his ego, connect to someone he’s lost, and is having a mental break about it (or at least that’s how I interpret the laughing at the end of the track.)

Vince Watson

Sleep

Another Moment in Time · 2023

Blown away by the textures and layers on this one. Reminds me of some of Steve Hauschildt's work but a touch more expansive somehow. I found this in the latest United In Flames which I just adore and I could include every single one on this site.

Ninajirachi

iPod Touch

I Love My Computer · 2025

It sounds like 'Loving you is easy but they boosted the bass'

I’m late to Ninajirachi but the above lyric has been rattling around my head for the better part of the week. I didn’t know or care about the Porter Robinson song it references but I’ve never had a lyric so quickly take mentally take me to searching YouTube for nightcore remixes and chopped and screwed edits and trawling soundcloud for funny versions of songs I love.

I view iPod Touch as a spiritual successor to Kero Kero Bonito's I Heard A Song. Both are about having a banger stuck in your head that you're trying so hard to get out.

Quavo & Future

BA

QRÖMELIFE · 2026

BA stands for Bernard Arnault. Pharrell produced it, obviously. I love noticing a good LVMH tie-in. I wonder how BA feels about this.

smokedope2016

Gnarly

Gnarly - Single · 2024

Won’t hit your phone
I’m on DND
I’m plotting

Towa Tei, Kylie Minogue & Haruomi Hosono

GBI (GERMAN BOLD ITALIC)

SOUND MUSEUM · 1997

not a lot of songs from the POV of a typeface

Headache & Vegyn

Dodge This!

Thank You for Almost Everything · 2025

Neither the past, the present, or future matter to me.
What matters to me is love, art, and money.

is headache’s prose a little on the nose? yes. the 16-bit, crunched synth line at around 1:22 more than makes up for it. this song propels itself forward like a bullet train, intensity that goes in a smooth straight line

The Sons of Silence

A Grain of Sand

Spring Forward: Fall Back · 1997

i first found this song in Susumu Yokota’s excellent Leaf Compilation and it has always struck me as a song that would be great to sweep your floor to

CFCF

Love Hotel

L.U.V. · 2026

Drake

Road Trips

MAID OF HONOUR · 2026

I wonder if Drake will ever change. I assume he won’t; the shallowness is the appeal. It’s funny to consider what Drake will 60 be like. He has to retire from music for his own sake. He can’t keep writing lyrics like:

I didn’t say that you’re the most selfish person alive
I just said you better hope she doesn’t die

Musically, I am am obsessed with what he’s doing here. Masterful sample usage and the core synth loop makes me bounce.

Lil Yachty

Strike (Holster)

Strike (Holster) - Single · 2023

Croatian Amor

Dancer (feat. Alto Aria)

A Part of You in Everything · 2023

Laurel Halo

Raw Silk Uncut Wood

Raw Silk Uncut Wood · 2018

i've had a lot of useful contemplation to this song

Organ Tapes & Jetty

Life After

Life After - Single · 2025

Kelora

Forget Me Not / Song From Earth

Gloomerald · 2023

there's something about the way she sings

Don’t make me bad
You know I’m not like that
Forget me not
I've not forgotten you
Not yet

that i find so chilling. thank you for reverb.

Buttechno & Triš

Silence 2

In Your Head · 2023

i laughed the first time I read Buttechno. the string samples remind me of Air - Modular mix but the breakbeats are pure dancey

Air

Modular mix

Premiers Symptômes - EP · 1995

you're sinking very deep into a plushy chair. eyes are heavy

Marc Leclair

114e jour

Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes · 2005

Learned about this album due to its recent reissue. Music for three pregnant women is a striking title! I'm a sucker for music that features water. Hypnotic loops and the whole thing is a little house-y

Sweet Trip

Fish

Halica: Bliss Out V.11 · 1998

underscores

Lovefield

U · 2026

unrequited love at the Stonestown Galleria

DJ LOSTBOI

Pet Shop B

Untitled - EP · 2021

sleep paralysis music

My New Band Believe

Love Story

My New Band Believe · 2026

i love the second verse

I'm soaking beans on the side
Chopping tomatoes
While you wash the rice
You sing along to your favourite songs
But you don't know the words
So you make up your own
I'm feeling sexy tonight
I got my Kikos on, and my hair is—
Somewhere in my smile I know
I'll never find no other lover

h/t Chris for informing me of the Jockstrap song it draws from.

Blithe Field

Earth Maintenance

Grits Kissed · 2023

there's no oxygen and earth is drifting further away